The Dark Metropolis: a sprawling beast of a city, choked with pollution and sights of deadly beauty.

In Wimbledon…

A race of giant rodents build libraries and palaces beneath the surface of a human park. Disciples of art and culture, the rodents also devote themselves to building an armored car with which to massacre their neighbors…

In Battersea…

A boy who looks 12 but is in fact over a hundred holds sway over a tribe whose law permits them no leader…

Among the Borribles…

A lone lookout, the most ambitious of his kind, sets out to steal the one object his race are forbidden to possess…

Eight Champions Assemble…

The greatest of the great, to pursue what they believe is an honorable goal, but which will set in motion a deadly chain of events that will change the world forever…